noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a coping strategy (=a way of coping with something)
▪ Some people use humour as a coping strategy.
a survival strategy
▪ The best survival strategy is to avoid putting yourself in unnecessary danger.
advertising campaign/strategy
▪ a major advertising campaign
▪ the advertising slogan ‘Come alive with Pepsi’
agree a price/plan/strategy etc
▪ We agreed a new four-year contract.
corporate planning/strategy (=the activity of planning what a big company needs to do to succeed)
▪ Roche is the man in charge of corporate planning.
devise a strategy
▪ The region is keen to devise a strategy to develop tourism.
exit strategy
▪ The President convinced people that he had a workable exit strategy to free his forces from the conflict.
formulate a policy/plan/strategy etc
▪ He formulated Labour Party education policy in 1922.
long-term plan/strategy/solution
pursue a policy/strategy
▪ The organization is pursuing a policy of cost cutting.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
alternative
▪ In this way, the child learns to expand his/ her range of alternative coping strategies.
▪ We were designed to have all sorts of alternative strategies to achieve our ends.
▪ This leaves only two alternative strategies: to flee or to hide.
▪ In the face of such opposition, those managements with the wit to explore alternative strategies have adopted a range of techniques.
▪ For many problems, people rely on drugs rather than seeking alternative coping strategies.
▪ Thus the no-arbitrage condition can be tested with respect to three alternative trading strategies: arbitrage, swaps and trade-the-cheapest.
▪ In Aden the path forward became clear, the alternative strategy was revealed.
corporate
▪ States must choose, in industrial policy as in corporate strategy, between diversification and specialisation.
▪ However, goals in Workplace 2000 will be dictated by competitive require-ments and corporate strategy.
▪ He stresses that formal planning can only be one of the many building blocks which determine corporate strategy.
▪ In their view, corporate strategies fail because they consider problems in the external environment but not those internal to the organization.
▪ How they strike a balance between the two is at the heart of corporate strategy.
▪ The test of a competitive strategy is its profitability. Corporate strategy plans the company's cluster of firmlets.
▪ Patents on life-forms are the key to this corporate strategy.
▪ The Shorts 360 specialises on the Jersey - Guernsey shuttle service. Corporate strategy is cautious, slow growth.
different
▪ Rather, the authors have made a selection and described them fully in order to explain and illustrate several different military strategies.
▪ Microsoft, meanwhile is pursuing a far different on-line strategy of weaving Internet features into its existing product lines.
▪ Information about the circumstances in which different overtaking strategies are employed will also be collected and analysed.
▪ If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
▪ She has developed a slightly different coping strategy which involves returning to work at night when it is quieter.
▪ Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
▪ On the other hand, a player faced with an Empire army would probably adopt a different strategy altogether.
▪ Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
economic
▪ Does government have a community economic development strategy?
▪ Maynard Smith tried pitting different genetic strategies against each other in the same way that economists do with different economic strategies.
▪ What can realistically be accomplished by Community Economic Development strategies and what criteria can be used to determine and evaluate success?
▪ Dole aides have said the candidate may propose broader income tax cuts later this year as part of his long-range economic strategy.
▪ Governments can find their economic strategies in tatters when the markets lose confidence and rush for the exit.
▪ Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.
▪ In bureaucratic terms, Armstrong was the keystone in the arch of Heath's economic strategy from the autumn of 1972.
▪ Evaluate effectiveness and economic benefit of strategies to prevent emerging infectious diseases.
effective
▪ This project is expected to contribute to the development of effective health education strategies which are relevant to consumers.
▪ They identified the pitfalls and defined their goals, and selected effective strategies from the array available to them.
▪ On the one side are those that suggest that land reform may be an effective development strategy.
▪ In such situations the most effective managerial strategy may be for the ReD unit to try to gain power within the organization.
▪ An effective preventive strategy which challenged these interests would seriously disrupt or impose great costs on capitalist producers.
▪ I am optimistic, therefore, that they can serve as the basis for an effective Mega long-term strategy.
▪ The marketer must therefore turn his attention to how to identify these factors soas to be able to construct an effective strategy.
▪ And we can share best practices so that every educator and employer does not have to recreate effective strategies from scratch.
national
▪ Then it may be able to form a national strategy to match the vision.
▪ The Pentagon, with a panel of independent experts about to follow, is reviewing national military strategy.
▪ However, it highlights the clear lack of an agreed national coastal strategy by the Government.
▪ The national strategy unit, led by Howard Webber and Tim Challans, has fused its contrary voices with diplomatic panache.
▪ An outline of the current national economic strategy is provided by the Minister of Industry and Commerce.
▪ The new national strategy must find ways to encourage more challenging and exciting practical science teaching.
▪ But, first, a distinction should be drawn between national grand strategy, Defence policy and current military strategy.
▪ The main aim of the meeting was to discuss how to persuade countries to create their own national strategies for biodiversity protection.
new
▪ But the new strategy threatens not only combatants, but those coordinating attacks.
▪ But many businesses are devising new strategies as the next millennium closes in.
▪ Brainwave William Waldegrave, the science minister, unveiled the first new government strategy for science and technology for 21 years.
▪ The effective use of new power strategies, albeit awkward at first, encourages their use in the future.
▪ The new national strategy must find ways to encourage more challenging and exciting practical science teaching.
▪ The new strategy was called flexible response.
▪ The new strategies of information control target people even more than in the past, aiming to intimidate them into self-censorship.
▪ A new strategy is clearly needed.
overall
▪ How much importance was attached to these initiatives in terms of overall company strategy? 5.
▪ The 10-year Apple veteran said the company would not unveil an overall Internet strategy at Macworld.
▪ Changes in personnel reflected shifts in overall public health strategy.
▪ Moreover, it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy.
▪ Some banks manage customers' investment portfolios with the customer and/or bank determining overall investment strategy.
▪ Subjects ranged from site matters to overall company strategy.
▪ Each practice area strategy should also be consistent with the firm's overall strategy.
▪ In the meantime, it is presently developing its overall strategy.
political
▪ What political strategies and tactics are used to influence budget allocations? 6.
▪ Now, we understand the difference here was largely over political strategy.
▪ As a political strategy it was highly effective, successfully confronting the medical discourse which lay behind regulation.
▪ These overhauls were to have been centerpieces of the Kohl political strategy for 1997.
▪ Few contemporary political strategies are conceived without considerable attention being paid to media considerations.
▪ Why is he always standing in the back there and taking copious notes if he is not planning and writing political strategy?
▪ At first sight it might be quite reasonable for the Labour party to employ the same approach to its political strategy.
▪ When the action slows, however, the novel bogs down in a lot of talk about military and political strategy.
■ NOUN
business
▪ The aim of business strategies is competitive success for financial success.
▪ Newbridge officials said they are working out a business strategy with their prospective partner, whom they declined to name.
▪ It is worth noting that some writers on business strategy are well aware of this problem.
▪ What is the role of your work group in helping your company to implement its business strategy? 9.
▪ Instead they are supposed to discuss future business strategy.
▪ At heart, Sanborns remains a solidly middle-of-the-road company-conservative in its business strategy, middle-class in its marketing approach.
▪ Similarly, other business strategy questions now debated in the boardrooms will define who will be successful in the future.
development
▪ An emphasis on deciding development strategies at local level, in the light of local circumstances.
▪ Local economic development strategies divert attention and resources of government away from direct efforts to resolve social problems. 7.
▪ On the one side are those that suggest that land reform may be an effective development strategy.
▪ Technology development strategies exhibit a fundamental logical contradiction.
▪ What can realistically be accomplished by Community Economic Development strategies and what criteria can be used to determine and evaluate success?
▪ How were local economic development strategies carried out, what were their outcomes and impacts, and who were their beneficiaries?
▪ The development strategy can be further controlled by specifying a parameter and temporarily removing nodes satisfying from the list of active nodes.
▪ Technology development strategies are designed to pick technology winners.
investment
▪ However, it is an approach that conflicts with traditional investment strategy.
▪ Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
▪ Each involves subtle differences in the investment strategy of the parties involved.
▪ Indeed, some of the largest institutional money managers catering to wealthy individual investors advertise tax-related investment strategies based on computer models.
▪ The liquidation of the Portfolio removed the necessity to re-examine the investment strategy.
▪ Ralph wants faster growth, so Steinmetz recommends a tougher investment strategy with an 8 percent return.
▪ Some banks manage customers' investment portfolios with the customer and/or bank determining overall investment strategy.
▪ There was no clear pattern to the investment strategies employed by the fund managers who scored best.
marketing
▪ Do firms employ investment related marketing strategies?
▪ Using a specific example, show how opinion leaders might be identified and influenced through a marketing strategy.
▪ Under the new marketing strategy, Cray Computer will offer the Cray-3 in two-, four- and eight-processor configurations.
▪ Mr Brown is responsible for marketing strategy, programme development and quality control, while Mr Morse will administer day-to-day operations.
▪ The marketing strategies of banks have been aimed in some cases at attracting young customers, especially the student market.
▪ But only 11-12 percent had prepared a formal marketing strategy or employed a marketing consultant in the past year.
▪ Companies must target significant sectors for their world marketing strategies to attack.
▪ Research can help a company to develop its global marketing strategy.
■ VERB
adopt
▪ Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time.
▪ Thus far, Dole has shown no signs of adopting such a strategy.
▪ Companies which utilize an aggressive sales policy, based on personal selling, are said to be adopting a push strategy.
▪ The dental museum has adopted a different strategy.
▪ Several kinds of insects adopt a similar strategy.
▪ The parliamentary debate on the Report showed the Home Secretary adopting a two-pronged strategy in his response.
▪ In the few years that followed, Eliot adopted various strategies to keep his poetry flowing.
▪ On the other hand, a player faced with an Empire army would probably adopt a different strategy altogether.
agree
▪ The Link group acts as a forum for the major environmental issues and agrees strategies to combat existing problems.
develop
▪ He developed a strategy skilfully designed to establish intelligentsia leadership over this revolt.
▪ Women are subjects also, but they have had to develop another strategy to maintain subjectivity.
▪ Too little is done to implement existing preventive knowledge or to develop preventive strategies known to be effective.
▪ Since joining the company in March, Carpenter has developed a strategy to fend off Oakley.
▪ However, these very skills may inhibit working through the important intellectual issues embedded in developing the strategy.
▪ Encourage work-inhibited students to develop their own strategies to improve their own efforts.
▪ Professor Budd's remarks echo a widespread belief in the City that the Government needs to develop a credible monetary strategy.
▪ In the 1980s, the state had developed an aggressive economic-development strategy to support key industries.
devise
▪ To this end he had devised a new strategy: the assault was not to be made by men but by guns.
▪ But many businesses are devising new strategies as the next millennium closes in.
▪ Researching and devising a strategy to build a smaller, smarter civil service is much, much harder work.
▪ Uppermost among them will be how they begin to devise a strategy to defeat a man who is both boxer and puncher.
▪ Rather than worrying about causing a problem, your focus should be on devising a strategy to correct one.
▪ Chelsea chairman Ken Bates has thus devised a two-pronged strategy to beat Cabra.
▪ After considerable grumbling and frustration, Roosevelt devised a different strategy for influencing the court.
discuss
▪ As you discuss strategy, address the following three dimensions.
▪ The process began in January 1942 when Churchill and his military leaders came to Washington to discuss strategy.
▪ The chairman of the division and I discussed endlessly what our strategy should be.
▪ Shortly after her election, the local board met to discuss goals and strategies for the year.
▪ Instead they are supposed to discuss future business strategy.
▪ After the Pensacola incident he contacted Ellie Smeal, offering to discuss litigation strategies.
▪ They were there to discuss strategies for slowing down the whirlwind of globalisation.
▪ Strengths and weaknesses were discussed, strategy plotted.
follow
▪ Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy.
▪ You can follow the same strategy with a preschooler.
▪ Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy.
▪ Basically, telcos are following two strategies in their expansion: in-territory and out-of-territory.
▪ It was found that key characteristics was by far the most popular strategy, followed by realist strategy.
▪ I taught them the importance of structure but also that structure has to follow strategy.
▪ Ptarmigan seems to be following a strategy similar to that adopted by Mr Wilbraham in 1989.
▪ Now, in a new arena, Harmon appears to be following a similar strategy.
formulate
▪ The researcher is there to help the agency formulate the right strategy and the right advertising solution.
▪ They therefore had decided to wait and see how the operations progressed before attempting to formulate subsequent war strategy.
▪ Its aim was to examine scientific evidence on climate change, assess environmental and socio-economic impacts and formulate realistic response strategies.
▪ The exercise itself actively helps you to formulate your aims and strategy for bargaining.
implement
▪ Only one other carpet company has been identified as implementing this strategy.
▪ Some RBOCs are actually implementing only one strategy, some are implementing both.
▪ From that you will develop a training strategy and then be responsible for deciding how to implement that strategy.
▪ The organizations in this study were implementing new strategies and introducing major restructuring.
▪ It also raises some of the problems involved in deciding how best to implement an organization's strategy.
▪ What is the role of your work group in helping your company to implement its business strategy? 9.
▪ Finally, problems and possibilities for implementing these strategies politically will be identified.
▪ Most of the bosses questioned the new managers explicitly about how they intended to implement the new company strategies: 1 Costs!
market
▪ To woo customers, the company has devised a unique marketing strategy.
▪ During the first year after the marketing strategy took effect, the number of park visitors jumped by 10 percent.
▪ The previous commissioner spent months with us, analysing our game plans and marketing strategy.
▪ Word-of-mouth is their primary marketing strategy.
▪ Working with the Sales and Marketing Departments to devise creative marketing strategies and campaigns; planning and supporting promotional initiatives and opportunities.
▪ The companies' marketing strategies strongly depend upon effective first-line sales managers.
▪ To answer these challenges, any budding access provider will need to develop strong marketing strategies and programs to support future growth.
plan
▪ Before you confirm a venue, plan your strategy for seat occupation in the main hall.
▪ Was the planned strategy carried out, and has it resulted in the objective being met?
▪ With companies now planning their entertainment strategy for the coming year, some will be looking for a more exciting day out.
▪ Even if a perfect solution is not found, the child goes from being passive to planning a strategy and eventually acting.
▪ Can land reform become part of a landscape-level land use planning strategy committed to social as well as environmental justice?
▪ So in the I-way, careful planning and strategy must be coupled with flawless execution.
▪ It never quite worked out as Lenin planned, but his strategy was inherited by Communists after him.
▪ They were expected to plan strategy and execute programs for their work units.
pursue
▪ Instead, they pursue a novel identity strategy designed to side-step the potentially problematic issue of nationality.
▪ If the system had been built on popular votes rather than the electoral college, each would have pursued a different strategy.
▪ The personalized nature of disputes caused litigants to pursue all possible legal strategies even when it would have been more rational to compromise.
▪ Traders and institutions value anonymity because it enables them to pursue investment strategies without being thwarted by competitors, the groups said.
▪ Small wonder then, that private financiers did not pursue this strategy.
▪ To return control to those who work down where the rubber meets the road, entrepreneurial leaders pursue a variety of strategies.
▪ For lawyers or accountants the notion of pursuing a flexible strategy towards employment makes a lot of sense.
▪ Key executives make a commitment to pursue a new strategy, only to return to business as usual.
use
▪ We decided to use a left-to-right strategy in the experiments described in Chapters 4, 5 and 6.
▪ Like many corporations, Hewlett-Packard also guards against wild currency swings and huge losses on overseas deals by using cautious trading strategies.
▪ Tackling truancy Schools reported using a range of strategies to tackle absence from school.
▪ The most frequently used strategy was develop alliances and coalitions.
▪ Note, we do not restrict player A to use a linear strategy.
▪ Preoperational children rarely use a strategy based on reasoning.
▪ They must present their arguments to the public, using whatever honest strategies they consider appropriate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a strategy to reduce the level of teenage smoking
▪ learning strategies
▪ Murdoch bought several TV stations, as part of his strategy for building a media empire.
▪ The company needs to focus on strategy.
▪ The government has no long-term strategy for reducing crime.
▪ the President's long-term economic strategy
▪ The rebels' strategy of guerrilla warfare has been remarkably successful.
▪ We need a new strategy for increasing our sales in Europe.
▪ We will continue to update our sales strategy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But ultimately, Ryan said, this would not prove a wise strategy.
▪ Events and issues shape the strategy.
▪ If Son has a grand strategy for extracting more value out of his ragbag of assets, it is hard to spot.
▪ Public entrepreneurs use a number of basic strategies to build mission-driven organizations.
▪ Secondly, it will evaluate the impact of government economic strategies within each area.
▪ The strategies in Axelrod's computer were definitely unconscious.
▪ The final score of a strategy was the sum of the points it gained against all the other strategies.
▪ Try these strategies to prevent these words from ever being uttered:-First, make all rules absolutely clear!